Yellow Tea Storage

Treat yellow tea the way you treat a fresh green tea, because in storage terms that is what it is. A year to eighteen months is a realistic window.

Yellow tea is the rarest of the types and the one most often mislabelled, which makes storage advice slightly academic if what you bought was never yellow tea.

Refrigeration between 0 and 5 degrees is genuinely useful if you are not going to drink the tea quickly.

The environment is cold or cool and dry. A fridge at 0 to 5 degrees is genuinely useful here, with the tin sealed inside a bag.

The setup that works for yellow tea is a small gasket-sealed tin, kept in the fridge, holding 50 to 100 grams.

Yellow tea is defined by men huang, a damp-heat smothering step that softens the grassy edge of a green tea and produces a delicate corn-like sweetness.